The Midnight Line - Lee Child

The Midnight Line

By Lee Child

  • Release Date: 2017-11-07
  • Genre: Mysteries & Thrillers
Score: 4.5
4.5
From 3,476 Ratings

Description

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER •  Lee Child returns with a gripping new powerhouse thriller featuring Jack Reacher, “one of this century’s most original, tantalizing pop-fiction heroes” (The Washington Post).

BONUS: Includes a sneak peek of Lee Child’s new novel, Past Tense.

Reacher takes a stroll through a small Wisconsin town and sees a class ring in a pawn shop window: West Point 2005. A tough year to graduate: Iraq, then Afghanistan. The ring is tiny, for a woman, and it has her initials engraved on the inside. Reacher wonders what unlucky circumstance made her give up something she earned over four hard years. He decides to find out. And find the woman. And return her ring. Why not?

So begins a harrowing journey that takes Reacher through the upper Midwest, from a lowlife bar on the sad side of small town to a dirt-blown crossroads in the middle of nowhere, encountering bikers, cops, crooks, muscle, and a missing persons PI who wears a suit and a tie in the Wyoming wilderness.

The deeper Reacher digs, and the more he learns, the more dangerous the terrain becomes. Turns out the ring was just a small link in a far darker chain. Powerful forces are guarding a vast criminal enterprise. Some lines should never be crossed. But then, neither should Reacher.

Praise for The Midnight Line
 
“Puts Reacher just where we want him.”The New York Times Book Review

“A gem.”Chicago Tribune
 
“A timely, suspenseful, morally complex thriller, one of the best I’ve read this year . . . Child weaves in a passionately told history of opioids in American life. . . . Child’s outrage over it is only just barely contained.”The Philadelphia Inquirer
 
“A perfect example of Lee Child’s talent . . . Lee Child is the master of plotting. . . . This is Child’s most emotional book to date. . . . This is not just a good story; it is a story with a purpose and a message.”Huffington Post
 
“I just read the new Jack Reacher novel by Lee Child. . . . It is as good as they always are. I read every single one.”Malcolm Gladwell

Reviews

  • Great Book

    5
    By BillRichard
    Another Reacher classic, could re read this one and enjoy it as much as I did
  • Dedicated to Wounded Veterans

    5
    By SnottyDotty
    A story too horrible to not be basically true.
  • Good Guys Win Again

    5
    By Eyerish21
    Another Jack Reacher classic. How anyone in the world can picture Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher is beyond my imagination.
  • Great Book

    5
    By Mrjamestx
    Good
  • Midnight line

    5
    By brassfield0401
    Oh yeah, Reacher at his best. Good support also.
  • The Midnight Line

    4
    By boots saddle
    Not the best Reacher yarn...but also not the worst. Improbable plot, but readable...with effort.
  • The Midnight Line

    1
    By mkbakersfield
    I purchased it, but the pages are all blank!
  • THE MIDNIGHT LINE

    5
    By Iglooite
    I started reading the Jack Reacher series kind of in the middle and in no particular order, but I decided to go back and start from book one through book 22, The Midnight Line. I’m really glad I did and would recommend the experience to everyone who likes the series. Lee Child has a way of building his main character from book one, with all his flaws and all his great characteristics. All of the characters in the series are interesting and very different. Mr. Child has a way of describing a scene in the book so that you can visualize it down to the deepest details. It takes a great author to do that. I love this series.
  • Great start... boring finish

    3
    By Donnertime
    Classic reacher story yet lacking any real drama or punch to the storyline in the back third of the book. I checked three times to make sure I didn’t miss any pages that would have twisted the plot to bring some elevation or pitch change to the story, but the last page came and went.
  • Great Read

    5
    By Rmechtly
    Enjoyed reading! Lee Child is a master writer! Can’t wait to read the next one!